Combined album and stand.



.No. 725,148. I PATENTED MAY 5, 1903.

I N. H. JONES.

COMBINED ALBUM AND STAND.

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NEWTON H. JONES, OE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED ALBUM AND STAND.

iSPECIFICATIO'N forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,148, dated May 5, 1903.

Application filed February 12, 1902. Serial No. 93,761. (No model.) I

To aZZ whom it may concern: Be it known that I, NEWTON H. JONES, a

citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Album and Stand,

My invention relates to a combined album and supporting stand or box therefor.

It has for its object to provide in one practicallyintegral device a book or album adapted to contain and display photographic and other pictures, a hollow supporting stand therefor, and a sliding drawer within said stand, the hinged cover of which drawer when withdrawn may be thrown down to supply an inclined ledge for writing-desk purposes.

To these ends my invention consists of the combination, with a book or album, of a substantially flat hollow box, one cover of the album forming the lid of the box, a sliding drawer adapted to be inserted into and withdrawn from the interior of the box and having a hinged lid adapted when thrown down to assume an inclined position relative to the box-stand and its sliding drawer.

In the drawings illustrating my invention,

Figure 1 is an elevation in perspective of a device embodying myinvented improvement; and Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof, showing in dotted lines the position of the sliding drawer when withdrawn and its hinged lid thrown down.

Referring to said drawings, there is represented therein a box-stand of ornamental exterior com posed of two opposite upright sides, (indicated at A in Fig. 1,) a rear vertical side B, Fig. 2, a base side 0, and the lid D thereof, which is one of the covers of the book or album E, said album-cover being, therefore, a permanent feature upon and practically an integral portion of the box-stand itself. Supports, such as knobs b, are preferably provided, chiefly for ornamental purposes. The album E is of usual character, as indicated in the drawings, save as to one of its covers, which, as before stated, is combined with the upright sides A, A, B, and O to form a hollow box open at the front. Adapted to conform to the shape and size of the interior of the box thus constructed is provided a drawer F, having a hingedlid G opening outward, the front of the drawer having, preferably,'a vertical side fextending below the base side f thereof in order to support the drawer when withdrawn at a height equal to the height of the base 0 of the box-stand. The lid G is hinged to this vertical side f of the drawer and when thrown down, as indicated in the drawings, will assume an inclined position.

In said Fig. 1 the drawer is shown withdrawn I from the hollow box-stand and the lid thrown down. It is obvious that said drawer will supply a convenient means for holding pictures, stationary, &c., and the inclined position assumed by the lid when thrown down supplies a convenient writing-desk. When the drawer is restored to normal position in the hollow box-stand, the front side fregisters with the inside edges of the sides A A of the box-stand and becomes a part thereof, and in that position of the parts the device as a whole has the appearance of an ordinary album resting upon an ordinary book-stand.

Having thus described-my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

' 1. In a combined album and its supportingstand, the combination of asubstantially fiat hollow box-like frame having an open front, of a book having stifi or rigid covers and horizontally mounted upon said box-like frame, one of the horizontal stifi or'rigid covers of the book constituting a permanent and fixed top or cover for the box-like frame, and a sliding drawer adapted to register with the interior of the hollow box-stand.

2. In a combined album and its supportingstand, the combination of a substantiallyfiat the book constituting a permanent and fixed In testimony whereof I have hereunto aftop or cover for the box-like frame, and a slidfixed my signature this 11th day of February, ing drawer adapted to register with the inte- A. D. 1902.

rior of the hollow box-stand, and having a NEWTON H. JONES. 5 hinged lid adapted to open outward and as- Witnesses:

snme an inclined position relatively to the GEO. W. REED,

box-frame when thrown open. H. E. BATTERSLEY. 

